Troll Builds

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dashgalaxy86 wrote:

The term troll build is one I borrowed from the LoL community. It just means suboptimal builds that people say "WTF" when they see.

Actually, they mean it with just as much contempt as serious forums treat trolls.

Which is disappointing to me, since I've crafted many builds that go against the grain.

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TealNinje wrote:

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dashgalaxy86 wrote:

The term troll build is one I borrowed from the LoL community. It just means suboptimal builds that people say "WTF" when they see.

Actually, they mean it with just as much contempt as serious forums treat trolls.

Which is disappointing to me, since I've crafted many builds that go against the grain.

Well you try playing with a Attack Damage Veigar. You'll feel contempt too.

Given what I have heard about the...liveliness of the communities of certain games, I do not think it entirely wise to borrow terms coined by them. ;)

Especially one so broadly used (erroneously, in my opinion) as 'troll'. I have been accused of it so many times, usually when I'm actually just trying to make a point, that the term itself has lost a lot of solid meaning in my experience. It's a fall back for lack of more specific definitions.

I'm not saying trolls don't exist; clearly they do! Merely that I think it slightly unfair to refer to someone who wants to play a creative, suboptimal but still viable build with the same term as the sorts of troublemakers who really can spoil things for everyone for their own malign pleasure.

That said, I like the idea of a troll build that uses troll's blood! :)

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dashgalaxy86 wrote:

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TealNinje wrote:

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dashgalaxy86 wrote:

The term troll build is one I borrowed from the LoL community. It just means suboptimal builds that people say "WTF" when they see.

Actually, they mean it with just as much contempt as serious forums treat trolls.

Which is disappointing to me, since I've crafted many builds that go against the grain.

Well you try playing with a Attack Damage Veigar. You'll feel contempt too.

Backwards builds I play (that work) :

Tank Veigar (ToG/Rabadon's/Warmog's/Warmog's.)
AD Malphite (Ghostblade/Phantom Dancer/Infinity Edge/Black Cleaver.)
DPS Amumu (Malady/Wit's End/Abyssal Scepter/Madred's Bloodrazors/Frozen Mallet.)
CDR Olaf (Ionian Boots of Lucidity/Glacial Shroud.)
AP Gangplank (Lich Bane/Rod of Ages/Archangel's/Rabadon's/Last Whisper.)

Notice I specified that these work. These are NOT troll builds.

Stupid Internet!

Shadowrun has a troll build.
D&D has a troll build.
So help me, WOW, has a troll build.


Don't call weird race/class combos "troll" We had the name first!